Opposition in a mess - UNIP

THE opposition in this country is in a total mess, says United National Independence Party (UNIP) in Southern Province.

UNIP provincial chairman, Robert Mukengami, said as a result, the opposition was failing to provide tangible checks and balances to the ruling Patriotic Front (PF).

Captain Mukengami said the opposition was only good at disrespecting President Edgar Lungu through insults.

He told the Daily Nation in an interview in Livingstone that the opposition has literary failed the people.

Capt Mukengami wondered how such leaders who were vying for the highest office in the land could be exhibiting cheap politics.

“The opposition is the neck and the ruling party is the head but what is happening is that the opposition is failing to control the movement of the head. Their role is to provide tangible checks and balances but they have failed.

“The Head of State is the leader of this country and must be respected by every Zambian whether they like him or not and not what is happening,” Capt Mukengami said.

CaptMukengami advised opposition politicians not to put the country in chaos by painting the nation black.

“I don’t want to mention names of some small political parties that are still fighting, but the issue is that this country belongs to all of us, we only have one Zambia,” he observed.

He said that those who were blaming President Lungu for the economic turbulences must come to terms with reality.

The provincial chairman explained that the effects of climate change and economic hardships were being experienced nearly everywhere in the world.

“Heaspiring for presidency to be sincere to themselves before embarking on such an ambitious undertaking,” Let us love one another as one Zambia one nation,” Captain Mukengami said.